Legal requirements for reporting to DMV (California)

If he takes the paperwork from the ER and sees his neurologist the seizure could be considered a one time thing by some neurologists. If he is put back on meds then they are keeping his seizures under control. It all depends on the doctors and regulations within the state laws. Your state requires a person to go XX months without a seizure before it can be reinstated.Can he live without a drivers license for that period of time or will it kill him?I know that there are many people with epilepsy that can't drive or haven for a few years but cab drive now. I also know there are those like me who have never driven and probably never drive. I've only been getting around without a license for 50+ yearsThe person that can answer that question is his neurologist who knows the medications he used and the strength he was using. What would you do or think about if he had a seizure and was driving? All it tales to have an accident while looking at a cell phone for a second. How long was that seizure he had? If it was a second long then he could have had an accident. In an accident could someone get injured? Could your son be injured? The laws are written to protect the people. It may hinder him but he can survive and get where he needs to using mass transit, friends, family members and other ways. I hope this helps

Thanks for the responses so far.  Let me provide a bit more information.  For a few years my son was on medication.  He hasn't have more than a dozen (if that) seizures in his life and felt that the medication was interfering with his ability to do his college courses.  I was very much against his decision not to take meds.  A couple of years ago he has a seizure in the shower, fell, and seriously injured his shoulder.  But still he refused (and there was no way for us to pressure him to change).His recent seizure did in fact take place while he was driving (on the freeway).  I haven't been able to learn all the details, but my other son was with him and somehow managed to take control of the car and even to get the car off the freeway into a nearby parking lot.  I don't understand how that is even possible.I guess this was finally enough for me older son to accept that he needed to do something.  He realizes that his seizure could have resulted in the death of his brother, others on the road, and himself.  So he is now willing to see a doctor about going back on meds.At this point we are only thinking about the best "strategy."  Since he currently has a valid driver's license, it would seem to be convenient NOT to have to go through the whole elaborate procedure of having the licence suspended and then re-instated at some later time.  Instead, he could simply stop driving for, say, 6 months.  Again my basic question is this:  If he goes to a neurologist (in the US) to get back on meds, is the neurologist REQUIRED to inform the DMV?  Since I live in Japan (as an American) another option for us is to have him come to Japan, get started on meds here.  In this way there would be no reporting to the DMV.  Then we're hoping he would be able to return to the US and just connect with a US neurologist to get renewals for his meds.